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I had mine out on the picnic table yesterday cleaning them up and a flying saucer swooped down and sucked them all up into the lower portal. Good thing I had my foil beanie on or I would have been a goner....:drama:

LockDoc

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Went up to the Toyota stealership for some light bulbs for my Corolla. Dealer part only. $30 out the door for two bulbs! :whine:

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What I did ,,i'm about ashamed at myself.. who'd of thinked that when I went to check my transmission by way of the fluid dip stick in my truck ,.I couldn't find the transmission stick ..looked it up in the book and it told me to not worry about fluid in there unless it was hot or something. No dip stick for the tranny,,

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I've heard of some not having dipsticks. Also some don't come with spare tires apparently. Econo sedans.

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Or 2010-15 SS, RS,Zl1,Z/28 Camaros...(and all the newer vettes and Camaros and a lot more) mine has neither of those things from the factory:lol: only the V6 non RS 18” wheels will fit in the spare tire well. Other than that you got a slime/compressor kit from GM... tranny dipsticks can be had aftermarket for pretty cheap for the 6L80 and 6L90 in the cars. As of the last Gen of trucks they still have the dipstick.

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I have known of "run flat" tires for quite some time and thought they only came on upper end cars most likely. A former employee bought a new Dodge Dart some years ago and said it did not have a spare or jack from the factory. I thought foowee but he said he went to the dealer asking about it and was told it wasn't supposed to have a spare or jack. And he had a flat.. I don't know. Is that real?

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It’s absolutely real on my Camaro. No jack, nothing, just a 12v compressor and a can of fix a flat...

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yes sir,i know all about these cars without spares.lots of BMW cars,some Honda Fits,Fiat 500's,Audi's.some with run flat tires instead.some of them have a spare tire that is delated to take up less room and a compressor to inflate it.you'd be in a mess if your compressor bit the dust?i just retired last year from CAA,the Canadian version of AAA.we'd go to calls everyday for cars with no spares.the call takers would even ask if they had a spare and were told,yes of course we have a spare.we'd head off knowing just by the car,we were off on a fool's errand and the car would end up on a tow truck.most folks had no idea and some would get cranky when we'd flip up the truck mat and there's nothing or a little do-dickey can of tire goo and a 10 cent air compressor,like in my own mustang GT convertible.the last time the car was into the Ford dealer for new tires,they had on the invoice,$89.00 for a can of tire sealant?when i questioned them why they would change it when it never had been used?it has an expiry date,they said?i told them to put the old back in,i'll never use it anyway.i laughed at the man at the Goodyear store,when i was pricing run flat tires for my last Mustang gt convertible and they were $2500.00 so i said no,i'll find regular tires for the car.he said you have no spare,you wouldn't put regular tires on it would you?i watch me i said.he said what if you get a flat.i'll call CAA.

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In the never-ending search for mileage claims, the manufacturers leave out the spare tire, and then sell it to you for stupid money. In spite of the rip-off of that system, every vehicle we've bought in the last 6 years has had the "spare" tire purchased at the time of sale. Before people get too wrapped around the axle, just remember that our trucks didn't come with a spare unless we purchased it! And then it might have only been the wheel, which is good for exactly what, when your truck has a flat tire?

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Yeah, the spare tire was an option on my first pickup, the 1973 K20.

I ordered the optional lock also, which rusted up and I had to crawl under with vice grips and unscrew the other bolt to get at my spare tire, while on a very narrow shelf road at the top of a 1000 foot rockslide. Some things you remember.

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It has been a struggle but I finally got signed up for Covid shots. First one this Saturday, second one April 17. :)

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Wife and I got our 2nd ones today. Pfizer.

LockDoc

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I'll be getting Moderna. Mrs Stocker has other medical stuff going on so will have to wait for hers.

Getting signed up here has been a real crap shoot. No waiting list so it's first-come, first served whenever more doses become available.

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Wife and I got our 1st shot 2 weeks ago. Moderna. We feel half way better about getting vaccinated now.
Now they are saying yearly boosters may be required for the foreseeable future.

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I have been expecting that. Much like the flu, Covid probably can change year-to-year, and we'll have to keep up with it. If that's how it turns out, I wonder if the vaccines can be combined, with just one shot needed annually to help immunize against both Covid and the flu.

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I read that some people are getting blood clots from the covid shots,, do they warn you of anything like this when you got your shot Mike ?

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Got new tires on the wife's car. She was not impressed with the cost. Eh, you want to die from a spinout when one of your old tires blows out? Yeah, I thought not. You rent tires, same as batteries and beer. The tread was a little less than half there, but I could see some cracking, and they are almost 6 years old.

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From what I have heard, the clotting issue -- though rare -- was in Europe with a different brand of vaccine (I forget which) and it turned out to be not caused by the vaccine. Does not appear to be a problem, at any rate.

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Mike I believe that was Astra Zeneca from the UK that is discontinued due to links to blood clots.
We received Moderna.

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Might want to take it easy for a day or two. After my second shot I woke up at 3am with chills and an achey body. Many people and most of my coworkers have reported the same thing after the second shot (Pfizer). First shot all I had was a sore arm, just like a tetanus shot. I’ve never felt anything or had any side effects from the flu shot.

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I felt only mild pain like a flu shot from either injection. Just goes to show how different people are. I got the Pfizer vaccination.

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I'm stealing that line. It's too funny and so true.

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Made a new bed cart old one was not that good . I had Made it on the fly with scrap ,this one I planned out . 3’x5’ should be stable enough had to pocket out where the lag bolts went so it sat flush and used pneumatic tires. Sits 30” tall, plan on getting some tubing to make a pull handle for it

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That looks great!

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Figure after I do the bed it will make a nice rolling workbench

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You could enlist a gal and a bunch of friends and do one of those "bed races" :lol:

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First thing she said when she came home "That would make a great potting bench"

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Both of our light duty truck mechanics are out this week so I got sent to do some emergency work on this 2019 F350 power joke. Got it all Fixed up before lunch. Should have taken a picture of the mangled headlight I replaced. Some how the rig crew ran it into the back of the work over rig as they were moving from well to well.

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Not today, but earlier this week.
I painted the chin spoiler and rear quarter-window covers of a friend's Mustang.

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A little more mercury in that second shot !!!!!

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Wife and I had our second Pfizer shots last Tuesday and had no pain or any kind of reaction. We got our shots at or local Hy-Vee store. The needle they used was about 1 1/4" long compared to the 3" ones they show on TV.

LockDoc

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Slept in, drank too much coffee, cardio.

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Got the first Moderna shot this morning, no issues. Well, almost none -- date was changed for the second shot and the online system would not allow the change.
Was able to cancel the original (wrong) date but could not schedule the new date.

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I'm not sure on which brand, but I'm scheduled for next Sunday...

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Between fixing the fuel crossover switch on the 85 and finishing up the console on the 72 I found time to boil sap . Second is after 20 gallons down starting to amber up

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I would love to understand this process...

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Pretty simple maple sap is between 2 and 4% sugar. When you boil it down (evaporation) you concentrate the sugar. Takes on average 30 to 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. Your also concentrating the maple taste. Going to try birch and black walnut next year

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Thanks, I had no idea it took so much to make a small amount. That explains why the real syrup is expensive.

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Would be nice if it came out of the tree all done

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Yeah, like people used to think that I just walked out in the woods and picked up corral poles already cut to 16.5' and 4" diameter on both ends with all the limbs trimmed off neatly - just FREE not forest service lease or anything... :rolleyes: